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Gr. BRIGGER.

LEATHER BELTING.

No. 443,352. Patented Deo. 23, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GOTTFRIED BRIGGER, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE IV. SIEBER, OF SAME PLACE.

LEATHER BELTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,352, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed May 23, 1890.

To all whom, it may con/cern:

Be it known that I, GOTTERIED BEIGGER, of Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leather Belting; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

io My invention relates to improvements in leather belting; and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim. x5 In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a plan of a belt embodying my invention, portions being broken away to show the construction. Fig. 2 is an edge View in section. In carrying out my invention the trimzo mings or other scrap should first be reduced to thongs of approximately uniform size, and in so doing the trimmings or scrap may be cut or subdivided into several thongs, if need be, and two or more thongs may be scarfed at the ends and glued or cemented together to make a thong of any desired length. Each thong is thoroughly stretched and the different thongs a are then arranged side by side in a room and woven into a band A of the width desired for the belt, the leather thongs serving as the warp and the filling consisting preferably of small twine b or other suitable material, the filling being inserted at inter'- vals, say, of a half or three-quarters of an inch, more or less. The filling serves merely to hold the thongs in place pending the subsequent operations, which are as follows: Next any number of bands A, constructed as aforesaid, may be laid together flatwise and glued under pressure, such bands being more or less in number, according to the desired thickness of the belt; also, a facing B, of leather, canvas, or other suitable material, may be glued to the face side of the belt. If

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glue is forced in between the thongs of each band, whereby the different members of the whole structu re are firmly united, and hence the twine or filling is of no further use as a binder. From the fact that the individual 5o thongs have been properly stretched, a belt thus constructed will remain straight edgewise, Whereas a leather belt constructed in the usual manner of broad pieces of leather,

however much care may have been exercised in the stretching, the belt is likely to become crooked after being used for a time.

lVith my improved construction a strong and durable belt can be manufactured at a comparatively small initial cost.

In a belt, the combination, with one or more woven bands, each band consisting of a warp ofleather thongs and a filling of twine or othersuitable material, of a facing of leather, 75 canvas, or other suitable material glued or cemented to such woven band or bands, such gluing being adapted to cement together the different members of the belt, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 21st day of April, 1890.

GOTTFRIED BRIGGER. Witnesses:

J As. W. SCOTT, EDWARD CLAFFEY. 

